Business View Caribbean | March 2021

105 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2021 and how long it takes to see an acceptance from a customer.” The company is pursuing barcoding from a quality and reliability perspective and as a safety tracking program for food products like CO2 if a customer reports contamination. Looking forward, Massy Gas Products (Trinidad) Ltd. is targeting several innovative areas of expansion as it seeks to diversify beyond its core products and services. According to Maharaj, “We are focusing on enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide in oil wells that have been left idle for some time. The ones that we are testing now have as much as a 50 to 70 percent increase in productivity.” This new project allows the company to partner with the Ministry of Energy, state-owned Heritage Petroleum, and other oil companies to produce more oil on the island and support the overall economy. Another area the company is seeking to expand into is carbon dioxide sequestering in concrete manufacturing. They are planning to offer the concrete industry a greener product that should help with long-term environmental sustainability and carbon capture. Long term, Maharaj says that the company plans to reduce its reliance on local industries, especially oil and gas, and create greater export opportunities. He shares, “As we continue to expand, more customers are reaching out to us from other jurisdictions and we are looking at what such an expansion would mean from a production perspective and what we would need to do to capture the opportunities that we are currently seeing.” MASSY GAS PRODUCTS ( TR INIDAD) L IMI TED Oxygen & Suction Therapy Industrial Gas Apparatus